Local Roads Improvement Project

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The objective of the Local Roads Improvement Project for Moldova is to provide safe and sustainable local road accessibility to education, health and market facilities along selected corridors. There are two components to the project, the first component being rehabilitation and maintenance of local road network. This component will finance the rehabilitation and upgrading of about 300 km of priority Local Roads. The focus will be to provide road access between villages and the national road network by developing cost effective, coherent networks with good connectivity. The works will include rehabilitation and periodic maintenance works and upgrading economically and socially justified roads to a sealed standard. These will be carried out across the regional road network and in the local road network in the selected raïon(s) using a new and improved system of selection and prioritization of key local road works. An important part of the component will be road safety works in the proximity of schools and on road sections within communities. Finally, the second component is the institutional strengthening. This component will finance a program of institutional strengthening to build capacity within the sector for efficiently and effectively maintaining and improving the regional and local road networks. The support to government institutions will be focused on building capacity for road network management in SRA and selected local authorities. This activity will finance a project management consultant who will support SRA in day-to-day management of the project but also provide specific services in the following areas: build capacity for management reform of local roads, develop and adopt local roads planning, design and construction standards, strengthen road fund expenditure monitoring and evaluation system, framework for local roads maintenance, and support a local roads safety program.